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Mixing It Up at 795 Folsom St – Twitter acquires MixerLabs to pimp their GeoAPI. (23.12.2009)

The meaning of open – Google comes up with its own universal theory of openness. (21.12.2009)

Socializing your feed with Twitter – Google rolls out its own Twitterfeed. (14.12.2009)

Netvibes Wasabi Introduces a Whole New Way to Manage the Real-Time Web – Netvibes releases its Wasabi edition, which is worth a look. (14.12.2009)

Amazon EC2 Spot Instances – And Now How Much Would You Pay? – AWS provide a kind of marketplace for EC2 instances. (14.12.2009)

An Android dogfood diet for the holidays – Google gently hints towards its very own phone. (12.12.2009)

Google Chrome for the holidays: Mac, Linux and extensions in beta – Google Chrome finally comes to Linus and Macs. (08.12.2009)

Exploring a new, more dynamic way of reading news with Living Stories – Google introduces living stories, a cool aggregator for news. (08.12.2009)

Relevance meets the real-time web – Google introduces the Twitter intgration. Has room for improvement. (07.12.2009)

Five Years of Digg…and counting – digg turned five. (04.12.2009)

Introducing Google Public DNS – Google introduces a public DNS. (03.12.2009)

Introducing Feather: A Lighter Way to Browse Videos – YouTube provides a lightweight interface. (03.12.2009)

LinkedIn Platform: Open for Business – LinkedIn launches a platform. (23.11.2009)

Soup TV: Endless scrolling for videos – soup.io launches soup.tv. (21.11.2009)

What's Happening? – omg, Twitter changes its tagline to What’s Happening? (19.11.2009)

Burda Media new primary shareholder of XING AG – Burde acquires 25% shares of Xing. (18.11.2009)

Announcing TypePad Micro – TypePad launches a free Microblogging tool. (17.11.2009)

Evernote raises $10 million investment – Evernote gets a nice cash infusion. (16.11.2009)

Typekit is live – Typekit has launched. (10.11.2009)

Bing maps is Looking Good – bing improves its maps. (10.11.2009)

Transparency, choice and control – now complete with a Dashboard – Google provides a dashboard, which lists all data known about a user. (05.11.2009)

Create and Share custom News sections – Google News gets a bunch of features for personalization. (04.11.2009)

The App Garden – Flickr has launched a playground for apps. (03.11.2009)

Bookmark sync and more speed in the latest beta release – Google Chrome now lets you sync bookmarks between computers. (02.11.2009)

There's a List for That – Twitter launches the Twitter-Lists. (30.10.2009)

First 5,000 Tags Released to the Linked Data Cloud – The New York Times teams up with freebase. (29.10.2009)

Introducing Google Social Search – Google launches a poorly implemented Social Search. (26.10.2009)

Introducing Raindrop – Mozilla introduces Raindrop, a project to filter input-streams. (22.10.2009)

Flickr! It’s made of people! – Flickr introduces People Tagging. (21.10.2009)

Tweets and updates and search, oh my! – Google hooks up with Twitter too. (21.10.2009)

Bing is Bringing Twitter Search to You – Bing hooks up with Twitter. (21.10.2009)

Introducing Ning Virtual Gifts! – Ning introduces gifts as virtual currency. (20.10.2009)

Delicious is now about Y!ou too – Delicious starts to switch to Yahoo-Logins. (19.10.2009)

The Wolfram|Alpha API Has Arrived – Wolfram|Alpha has released an API. (15.10.2009)

Aardvark launches Social Search on the Web – Aardvark has launched publicly. (14.10.2009)

Birthday #4 – Remember turns four. (13.10.2009)

Waving hello! – The hello world posting of Google Wave. (12.10.2009)

4,000,000,000 – Wow, flickr now has 4 billion photos. (12.10.2009)

Welcome To The New Technorati – Technorati relaunches and completeley loses its contact with the blogosphere. (08.10.2009)

Publicize: Twitter – Wordpress lets you automagically tweet new posts. (08.10.2009)

It’s here: Brightkite 2.0 – Brightkite relaunches as Brightkite 2.0. (06.10.2009)

What is a browser? – And Googles tries to explain the concept of a browser. (06.10.2009)

Choosing a smart password – Google provides some tips for choosing a smart password. (06.10.2009)

Announcing Custom Times Feeds – The New York Times launches Custom Times Feeds. (05.10.2009)

Introducing free Geistesblitz app for iPhone – MindMeister launches Geistesblitz for the iPhone. (05.10.2009)

Social Mention: API monitoring for social sentiment and alerts – Apigee launches an API for tracking social sentiments. (02.10.2009)

Don't Forget: You Can Use Amazon SimpleDB For Free – Actually I forgot: You can keep up to 1 gigabyte of data in SimpleDB without paying any storage fees. (02.10.2009)

YUI 3.0.0: First GA Release of YUI’s Next-Generation Codeline – Yahoo finally has officially released the YUI 3.0.0. (29.09.2009)

New in Labs: Hide read labels – Useful Gmail Labs feature which only displays labels with unread messages inside. (25.09.2009)

New Twitter Funding – Twitter confirms the $100 mio round of funding. (25.09.2009)

Shared Snapshots for EC2's Elastic Block Store Volumes – Amazon launches shared snapshots for EBS, which can be shared betweens various EC2s. (24.09.2009)

PostRank launches the first Publisher Engagement Analytics service – PostRank launches an analytics service tracking social engagement. (24.09.2009)

Posterous Tip: Turn Posterous tags into autoposted Twitter #hashtags – Posterous added a new feature that turns tags on Posterous into #hashtags when you autopost to Twitter. (24.09.2009)

Help and learn from others as you browse the web: Google Sidewiki – Google launches Google Sidewiki, Google’s layer to comment the web. (23.09.2009)

MySpace Gets Twitterized – Twitter and MySpace now can sync their status updates. (23.09.2009)

Product Ideas for Custom Search – Google Custom Search gets its very own Product Ideas Page. (22.09.2009)

The holy tech flame wars – Pingdom has compiled a short history of flame wars. (22.09.2009)

Calling All Ideas – Google Reader gets its very own Product Ideas Page. (22.09.2009)

Yahoo! OpenID: Now more powerful and easier to use – Yahoo now supports the OpenID Hybrid Protocol. (18.09.2009)

Log In with Your Facebook Username – Wow, beginning today, you also will be able to log in to your Facebook account with your username. (17.09.2009)

Teaching computers to read: Google acquires reCAPTCHA – Google acquires reCAPTCHA and crowdsources the web to digitze the books. (16.09.2009)

Posterous Theming: It's here, it's live, and it's time to make your site yours! – Posterous adds theming. Not sure if this is a good idea, most people will love it tho. (16.09.2009)

Testing 1-2-3: Announcing Facebook Prototypes – Facebook gets Google Labs like Prototypes. (15.09.2009)

Read news fast with Google Fast Flip – Google launches Fast Flip, a new reading experience that combines the best elements of print and online articles. (14.09.2009)

Visual Search – Why type when you can see it? – Bing introduces Visual Search. (14.09.2009)

Making Your TypePad Blog Real Time – TypePad adds support for PubSubHubbub. (14.09.2009)

Tag Friends in Your Status and Posts – Facebook mimics Twitter’s people tagging via @-symbols. (10.09.2009)

Tornado: Facebook's Real-Time Web Framework for Python – Facebook open sources parts of FriendFeed as Tornado, non-blocking Web server framework written in Python. (10.09.2009)

The new Flickr iPhone app – Late to the party Flickr releases an iPhone app. (10.09.2009)

Twitter's New Terms of Service – Twitter introduces it’s new TOS. (10.09.2009)

Introducing Ning Apps for your Ning Network – Ning introduces Ning Apps and seeds it with 90 Apps or so. (10.09.2009)

Introducing the TweetDeck Directory – TweetDeck launches a directory. (09.09.2009)

You Might As Well Jump! – Wow, 10 years in the making Blogger gets ‘read more’ jumps. (09.09.2009)

Now S-U-P-E-R-sized – Google super-sizes the search box (and looks a bit dull.) (09.09.2009)

Introducing the all new Yahoo! Contacts API – Yahoo launches a Contacts API which can be accessed via OAuth. (08.09.2009)

RSS in the Clouds – WordPress adds support for Dave Winer’s RSS Cloud. (07.09.2009)

Focus on 4.2.0 – The fabulous Textpattern has a new release: 4.2.0. (05.09.2009)

Status feature coming soon to your Ning Network! – Ning Networks will soon have status updates. (04.09.2009)

Go ahead and j.mp – The URL-shortener bit.ly snaps the domain j.mp. (04.09.2009)

App Engine SDK 1.2.5 released for Python and Java, now with XMPP support – The latest version of the Google App Engine adds support for XMPP, one of the building blocks for the real-time web. (03.09.2009)

Introducing Facebook Connect for Mobile Web – Facebook launches Connect for Mobile Web. Users can publish Feed stories from their phones to Facebook. (03.09.2009)

New Feature: Use Feedburner to track your feed – Posterous now lets you use Feedburner to track your feed’s performance. (01.09.2009)

New feature: Brizzly Pics – Brizzly gets photo upload. (01.09.2009)

Introducing: New Showcase, Public Prezi Page – Prezi adds public pages and taps into the social. (31.08.2009)

Netvibes Powers T-Online.de, Germany’s Largest Portal – Netvibes teams up with T-Online Germany, which uses it for the personalizes start page ‘meine Seite’. (28.08.2009)

APIs as Dark Matter: our vision for Apigee – Apigee thinks about APIs, the dark matter of the web. (27.08.2009)

We just launched a URL shortener. Are we insane? – Clicky too launch their very own URL-shortener service clicky.me. (26.08.2009)

Disqus version 3: Introducing Disqus Comments and Disqus Profile – Disqus introduces the new version of the commenting system. (25.08.2009)

In the future, everyone will monetize their 15 minutes – YouTube extends the Partner Program to popular indie-clips. (25.08.2009)

Static Maps API v2: Encoded Paths, Polygons and Geocoding – Google’s Static Maps API now supports Polygons. (25.08.2009)

Convert doc to jpg, doc to gif, doc to png and more – Zamzar adds support for converting various formats to .png. (24.08.2009)

The evolution of Mail, Messenger and Search – Yahoo gives an overview over the new features for Mail, Messenger and Search. (24.08.2009)

Video chat from iGoogle – iGoogle adds support for video chat. (21.08.2009)

MindMeister for iPhone finally in the App Store! – MindMeister has released an iPhone app. (20.08.2009)

Design Patterns, Now More Open and Social – Yahoo improves the (interesting) Patterns Library. (20.08.2009)

Location, Location, Location – Twitter is getting ready to roll out a Location API. (20.08.2009)

Towards a programmable web: PubSubHubbub for Google Alerts – Google hooks up Google Alerts with PubSubHubbub. (19.08.2009)

The Best of Both Worlds: Microblogging on TypePad – TypePad adds a microblogging feature. (18.08.2009)

URL shortener speed and reliability shootout – Pingdom compares the performance of various URL-shorteners. (18.08.2009)

By Popular Demand, We’re Keeping the Term Extraction Service – Yahoo keeps the Term Extraction Service alive. (18.08.2009)

Blogger Joins the Hubbub – Blogger has rolled out support for PubSubHubbub. (17.08.2009)

The Future of News Will Be Social – Facebook teams up with the Huffington Post to create Social News. (17.08.2009)

Folders now have their own bookmarklets. – Instapaper provides bookmarklets for folders. (16.08.2009)

WP.me – shorten your links – WordPress launches its very own URL-shortener. (14.08.2009)

Bringing the power of Creative Commons to Google Books – Google Books encourages authors to license their works under a creative commons licence. (13.08.2009)

What’s your social mojo? – Yahoo has developed a Twitter mashup which finds out your Twitter personality type. (13.08.2009)

Project Retweet: Phase One – Twitter will fully integrate Retweets. (13.08.2009)

Joyent Sells Strongspace and Bingodisk to ExpanDrive – Joyent has sold Strongspace to ExpanDrive. (13.08.2009)

A flurry of features for feed readers – Google Reader tries to get more social and adds sharing to other services. (12.08.2009)

Jonathan LeBlanc: YQL and YUI – Video introduction to YQL and YUI. (12.08.2009)

FriendFeed accepts Facebook friend request – Facebook has acquired FriendFeed. (10.08.2009)